Event Information

Date: Oct 11, 2025

Time: 2:00pm—3:00pm

Phone: 360-642-3446

Address: Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum
115 SE Lake Street Ilwaco, WA 98624 Ilwaco, WA 98624

Price: Free

More Information:
Join us on Saturday October 11, 2025 at 2pm for an informal gallery talk with Judith Altruda, Curator of What is Native Art? Eugene Landry and the Creative Spirit. Eugene Landry (1937-1988) was a noted Northwest Native artist who painted from his wheelchair. His personal story is one of perseverance, of an artist who created despite setbacks, always with humor and style. In 2019, Tokeland and Astoria based artist Judith Altruda found a large collection of Eugene Landry’s art inside an unheated storage building. It had been sitting there for almost 25 years. She bought the collection to save it from ruin and was so taken with his art and life story that she wrote a book about Gene‘s life, A Portrait of Gene, an Artist, a Time and a Tribe. She is currently working on a second book about Gene’s life. Since 2019, more art has surfaced, from private collections and elsewhere. Like puzzle pieces, each work expands and fills in more of Gene’s story. Image: Judith Altruda, Curator with Eugene Landry’s Portrait of Nina The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm.  For more information, please call 360-642-3446 or  visit columbiapacificheritagemuseum.org.